4-substituted-quinolin

The formation of a library of 2-substituted quinolines employed a variation on the Boekelheide reaction. Treatment of A-oxide 41 with isobutylchloroformate did not result in the typical rearrangement. However, subsequent exposure to Grignard reagents resulted in loss of the carbonate with concomitant formation of the 2-substitute derivatives 42. 

In 1883, Bottinger described the reaction of aniline and pyruvic acid to yield a methylquinolinecarboxylic acid. He found that the compound decarboxylated and resulted in a methylquinoline, but made no effort to determine the position of either the carboxylic acid or methyl group. Four years later, Doebner established the first product as 2-methylquinoline-4-carboxylic acid (8) and the second product as 2- methylquinoline (9). Under the reaction conditions (refluxing ethanol), pyruvic acid partially decarboxylates to provide the required acetaldehyde in situ. By adding other aldehydes at the beginning of the reaction, Doebner found he was able to synthesize a variety of 2-substituted quinolines. While the Doebner reaction is most commonly associated with the preparation of 2-aryl quinolines, in this primary communication Doebner reported the successful use of several alkyl aldehydes in the quinoline synthesis. 

The preparation and use of derivatized Meldrum s acid has led to an alternative preparation of 2-substituted quinolines (49 and 50) and the preparation of pyridopyrimidines (52). When Meldrum s acid derivatives are used (as shown in this example) decarboxylation occurred under the cyclization conditions. Three component coupling has been used to readily assemble the desired 3-anilino-acrylate from reaction of Meldrum s acid, (EtO)3CH and an aniline (e.g. 54 or 55).< ... 

The palladium-catalyzed reaction of o-iodoanilides with terminal acetylenic carbinols provides a facile route to the synthesis of quinolines using readily available starting materials (93TL1625). When o-iodoanilide 126 was stirred with acetylenic carbinol 127 in the presence of bis-triphenyl phosphine palladium(ll) chloride in triethylamine at room temperature for 24 h, the substituted alkynol 128 was obtained in 65% yield. On cyclization of 128 with sodium ethoxide in ethanol, 2-substituted quinoline 129 was obtained in excellent yield. 

The 2-substituted quinoline 708 gave upon reaetion with mesitylenesulfo-nyl hydroxylamine the 1-aminoquinoline salt 709 whieh eould be eyclized with PPA to give 710 (75JHC481). Heating the 2-methylquinoline 711... 

The specific ortho functionalization of arylamines is obviously important in quinoline synthesis (cf. the rc-allyl procedure devised for the preparation of o-allylanilines used as indole and quinoline precursors).76 Recently acetanilides have been subjected to orthopalladation and the ensuing complexes converted into useful precursors of 2-substituted quinoline derivatives (Scheme 143).215... 

The asymmetric hydrogenation of quinoline continues to be of interest. Li et al. reported the asymmetric hydrogenation of a variety of 2-substituted-quinolines to the corresponding tetrahydroquinolines using an Ir-catalyst with a BINOL-derived diphosphonite ligand... 

In the reactions of equimolar amounts of 3,4-diisobutoxyaniline, diethyl malonate, and ethyl imidate hydrochlorides in the presence of triethyla-mine at 120°C for 2 hr and then at 140°C for 15 hr, 2-substituted quinoline-3-carboxylates (269) were prepared (73ACH217). 

The thermal cyclization of [(3-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)amino][4-methoxy-phenyl)methylthio]methylenemalonate (789, R = Cl, R1 = 4-MeOC6H4) in diphenyl ether at 250°C for 3 min gave 2-substituted quinoline-3-carbox-ylate (790, R = Cl, R = 4-MeOC6H4) in 66% yield (82EUP58392). 

Quinolines (2-substituted) Quinolines (8-substituted) a-Naphthylamines /TNaphthylamines Benzylamines (ring substituted) A-Substituted anilines 1 -Aminoanthracene ... 

Alternative synthetic approaches include enantioselective addition of the organometallic reagent to quinoline in the first step of the synthesis [16], the resolution of the racemic amines resulting from simple protonation of anions 1 (Scheme 2.1.5.1, Method C) by diastereomeric salts formation [17] or by enzymatic kinetic resolution [18], and the iridium-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of 2-substituted quinolines [19]. All these methodologies would avoid the need for diastereomer separation later on, and give direct access to enantio-enriched QUINAPHOS derivatives bearing achiral or tropoisomeric diols. Current work in our laboratories is directed to the evaluation of these methods. 

Nayyar A, Monga V, Malde A et al (2007) Synthesis, anti-tuberculosis activity, and 3D-QSAR study of 4-(adamantan-l-yl)-2-substituted quinolines. Bioorg Med Chem 15 626-640... 

The Brpnsted acid catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of the corresponding readily available 2-substituted quinolines (for an interesting approach to 2-alkyl tetrahydroquinolines by an aza-xylene Diels-Alder reaction, see Steinhagen and Corey 1999 Avemaria et al. 2003), which we prepared by simple alkylation of 2-methylquinoline, generated the tetrahydroquinoline derivatives in excellent enantioselectivities and subsequent A-methylation gave the desired natural products in good overall yields (Fig. 5). 

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